BBC radio is playing the exact same rolling obituary-news-commentry over all it's stations and it is ahem royally pissing me off. OK, sure, Philip was an important public figure. His death is a...
BBC radio is playing the exact same rolling obituary-news-commentry over all it's stations and it is ahem royally pissing me off. OK, sure, Philip was an important public figure. His death is a significant event. Lots of people are upset. All those things are true. But I can listen to Radio 4 if I want to hear about that stuff, but instead I don't get a choice and instead of 6 Music being a music station, it's been news and chat all afternoon.
Even worse, they keep playing clips of Boris and his voice always makes me feel angry and slightly nauseous. I should probably turn the radio off.
Anyway I do feel bad for Liz, they'd been together almost 75 years. I can't imagine what losing a partner of that kind of time feels like.
And the same would have happened if they'd done less. It was always going to be a lose-lose situation for them. I didn't really care as much as my comment suggested, I just wanted to use the...
And the same would have happened if they'd done less. It was always going to be a lose-lose situation for them. I didn't really care as much as my comment suggested, I just wanted to use the phrase "royally pissing me off", it's not like it's hard to put something else on these days. Some of the obit stuff was interesting, Philip was a pretty decent guy it turns out. I had no idea.
I spent a bit of time going through other BBC radio stations after posting my comment and they were mostly wall-to-wall obit/chat, but radio one and one xtra (pop, 'urban' music, demographic target 18-30) weren't playing speech, they were playing weird kinda downbeat electro-acoustic music. The kind of music you'd expect to hear if you were on hold at a funeral director's. Seemingly the whole day long.
This is all part of a plan, it was interesting listening to the music stations escalate slowly up from the 'very sad' to the 'sad', then the 'moderately sad' playlists, then eventually back to relatively normal programming. It's fascinating that they have planned what music to play based on how bad the national news is deemed to be. Apparently if you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (In The Nursery Mix) on daytime Radio 1 then something very serious has happened.
A bit offtopic, but related and rather amusing: Comedian Lewis Spears shocked to learn about Prince Philip’s death while mocking him on stage Longer portion of the set can be seen on his channel...
BBC radio is playing the exact same rolling obituary-news-commentry over all it's stations and it is ahem royally pissing me off. OK, sure, Philip was an important public figure. His death is a significant event. Lots of people are upset. All those things are true. But I can listen to Radio 4 if I want to hear about that stuff, but instead I don't get a choice and instead of 6 Music being a music station, it's been news and chat all afternoon.
Even worse, they keep playing clips of Boris and his voice always makes me feel angry and slightly nauseous. I should probably turn the radio off.
Anyway I do feel bad for Liz, they'd been together almost 75 years. I can't imagine what losing a partner of that kind of time feels like.
Related:
BBC receives record 100,000 complaints about wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death
And the same would have happened if they'd done less. It was always going to be a lose-lose situation for them. I didn't really care as much as my comment suggested, I just wanted to use the phrase "royally pissing me off", it's not like it's hard to put something else on these days. Some of the obit stuff was interesting, Philip was a pretty decent guy it turns out. I had no idea.
I spent a bit of time going through other BBC radio stations after posting my comment and they were mostly wall-to-wall obit/chat, but radio one and one xtra (pop, 'urban' music, demographic target 18-30) weren't playing speech, they were playing weird kinda downbeat electro-acoustic music. The kind of music you'd expect to hear if you were on hold at a funeral director's. Seemingly the whole day long.
This is all part of a plan, it was interesting listening to the music stations escalate slowly up from the 'very sad' to the 'sad', then the 'moderately sad' playlists, then eventually back to relatively normal programming. It's fascinating that they have planned what music to play based on how bad the national news is deemed to be. Apparently if you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (In The Nursery Mix) on daytime Radio 1 then something very serious has happened.
A bit offtopic, but related and rather amusing:
Comedian Lewis Spears shocked to learn about Prince Philip’s death while mocking him on stage
Longer portion of the set can be seen on his channel (he handles it brilliantly, IMO):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu-3qR-nQQU